Posting: full time social worker
July 14, 2021
Job Type: Full-time
Full Job Description:
Seeking a full time social worker for a busy Primary Care Practice to deliver exceptional, integrated behavioral health services to their patients. We provide physician partners with a comprehensive Collaborative Care solution -- psychiatric consultants and technology -- to help identify and treat their patients dealing with a variety of behavioral health diagnoses.
We are looking for a talented primary care social worker, to coordinate behavioral health care & deliver high-quality, evidence based interventions to support people in need.
Your responsibilities:
- Contact individuals referred by primary care providers or who have been identified as needing behavioral health services
- Determine need for Psychiatric intervention
- Assess patients and provide brief therapy interventions and/or ongoing symptom monitoring, provide community resources
- Educate patients about potential treatment options and address concerns
- Clearly document your episodes to assist the rest of the collaborative care team (PCP's, psychiatric professionals)
- Facilitate timely billing and recordkeeping
What you will need:
- LLMSW or LMSW
- Available to work full
- Engaging and personable. You can quickly build rapport with patients over the phone, even if they are resistant to speaking with you
- Experience providing Collaborative Care, Motivational Interviewing , Behavioral Activation and other evidence based short term treatments strongly preferred
- Strong written and verbal communication- you write and speak clearly and concisely
- Excited about working independently and remotely, as well as part of a team of clinicians
- Have experience using a computer to do your job, and are not intimidated by new technology
Send Resume to Christina England, RN at cenglan2@hfhs.org